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Coisotropic submanifolds and dual pairs

Symplectic Geometry 2020-02-03 v2 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

The Poisson sigma model is a widely studied two-dimensional topological field theory. This note shows that boundary conditions for the Poisson sigma model are related to coisotropic submanifolds (a result announced in [math.QA/0309180]) and that the corresponding reduced phase space is a (possibly singular) dual pair between the reduced spaces of the given two coisotropic submanifolds. In addition the generalization to a more general tensor field is considered and it is shown that the theory produces Lagrangian evolution relations if and only if the tensor field is Poisson.

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@article{arxiv.1306.3249,
  title  = {Coisotropic submanifolds and dual pairs},
  author = {Alberto S. Cattaneo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.3249},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

29 pages; minor corrections; to appear in Lett. Math. Phys

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